posted at 2:58 pm on September 5, 2008 by Allahpundit

Just across. BET and TV One apparently decided that with Barry O already pulling 90-95% of the black vote, they needn’t bother turning any precious airtime over to McCain. In fact, all four nights of the Democratic convention aired on both networks. The GOP convention didn’t air at all.

Do note: Palin finished just shy of both candidates in total audience running on only six networks, two fewer than McCain and four fewer than Obama. Telemundo and Univision didn’t bother with night three coverage.

Sweet news, although it would have been sweeter had Maverick’s speech been a home run rather than a bloop double. Exit question: How’d he beat The One? Ridin’ the wave of Palinmania, or ridin’ the wave of football fans looking for something to watch after the Giants-Redskins game ended? I want to believe it’s the latter, just because the network that would have made the difference in that case is … NBC.

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McCain needs to just shut up. If he gets elected, it will be because of palin and nothing he stands for. Every time he opens his mouth, he just reinforces that he is as liberal as Obama on most issues. Palin could beat either of them because she represents the people instead of them feeding their own inflated egos. Palin can remove the smell when conservatives hold their noses when they have no choice but to pull the lever for McCain.

How nice. McCain’s speech was watched by more people. It’s a shame we don’t spend the time to read what he said and critique that. Most have lost all objectivity by saying, “it doesn’t matter what he’s said or done. He’s better than Obama.”

No one wants to watch the GOP convention
by kos
Thu Sep 04, 2008 at 06:50:35 AM PDT
Given that everyone — even Republicans — are saying this convention was about Palin, it looks like McCain is ending up a sad, pathetic afterthought.

I sent the following email to Fox & Friends in response to their question of the day, has the media been biased against Palin:

good morning.

compared to the DNCC coverage last week, the RNC is getting far less of it:

BET had primetime coverage of the DNCC;

TV One had primetime coverage of the DNCC;

ALL of the Spanish networks had primetime coverage of the DNCC.

NONE of these stations is carrying any coverage of the RNC.

Also, CNN for a few hours on Monday had a ‘Breaking News’ banner on screen of Gov. Palin’s 17-year-old’s daughter pregnancy. I don’t see how that’s breaking news.

Eddie XXXXXXX
Pearland, TX

Brian K. read it on the air but said, in all fairness there was a hurrican that hit Monday.

What I should have mentioned is that I checked the scheduling for Monday. BET was showing the BET Awards, and all of the Spanish stations were showing regular programming that night. Tuesday, the same. Wednesday, ditto. Thursday, ditto again with the exception of Univision, owned by GE, which showed Sen. McCain’s speech only.

When I had heard his speech reached more people than Hussein’s, I was thrilled.